It was not until the mid 1980s that these operations became commonplace.

Hostage taking and murder, particularly of town mayors and government officials in areas of, or close to, the conflict became commonplace.

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.

We can, in fact, make it commonplace.

It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.

It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

The imposition of arbitrary taxes is reportedly commonplace.

Beatings during arrest were said to be commonplace.

Naval warfare continued in this vein through the Middle Ages until the cannon became commonplace and capable of being reloaded quickly enough to be reused in the same battle.

He lived in a neighbourhood where screams were commonplace.

During the 1990s, and into the early 21st century, however, Leet became increasingly more commonplace on the Internet, and it has spread outside Internet based communication and into spoken languages.

And that was really critical. The mesh network, it'll become commonplace.

Murder, assault, armed robbery have been commonplace in the last three years.

Trafficking within countries had become commonplace, challenging the usual definition of the phenomenon.

Jogging, which is commonplace, and widely accepted as good for you, is solemn.

My father was a (genuine) rocket scientist, and I figured that just as airplanes had become commonplace over the course of his life, space travel would become commonplace over the course of mine.

Such protests against public agencies, employers, and developers are now commonplace (though not always authorized).

But at one time, it was fairly commonplace to think of yourself as a maker.

Since the late 70's most if not all garages are attached, and throughout the 80's it became more common to have an access door into the home from the garage where design permitted, whereas it is commonplace now.

That by itself could make solutions that now seem out of reach commonplace in the future.

Some individuals interviewed informed the team that intimidation and harassment by ex combatants were commonplace occurrences.

Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.

Days became weeks, weeks became months, months became years.

Alas, such commonplace language also makes wars harder to avoid, harder to end, and arguably more deadly.

Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950 s.

That is particularly the case in the Congo and in the Sudan. Sexual violence is becoming commonplace.

Despite the pictures we are shown daily in the news, wars between developed countries are no longer commonplace.

Anti dumping action against imports from China, Vietnam, and other Asian exporters is already commonplace in developing countries.

For both the seller and the passenger, this has become such commonplace that one hardly notices one another.

This was an innovative method for the time before journalism that relied on first hand reports was commonplace.

Sovereign obligations, such as bonds, are commonplace in the capital markets, and demonstrate strong investor demand and confidence.

What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times.

Despite the pictures we are shown daily in the news, wars between developed countries are no longer commonplace.

The use of commercially available and improvised explosives by Al Qaida and its associates is commonplace (see box 5).

And it was commonplace in my household to walk and see my parents shooting up drugs in my kitchen.

With the taboo on discussing the succession broken, talk about the physical and mental fitness of the likely successor became commonplace, and members of the ruling family who objected to the prospect of being ruled by a severely incapacitated crown prince came to enjoy broad support.

It became a book. It became a show.

In economies where economic and financial crimes are socially accepted as commonplace, the confidence of legitimate investors is severely diminished.

Valentina became queasy during the flight and became sick.

So as food became more plentiful, bread became cheaper.

A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.

But it is a commonplace that, particularly in the world of politics, the formulation of problems is the domain of dialogue.

A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.

It's just that their beauty is missed because they're so omnipresent, so, I don't know, commonplace, that people don't notice them.